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February 10, 2010
Disables Council sets up car wash to help disabled students-Fiji
The following information was downloaded from the mailing list of "Disability and Development" with a cooperation of the publisher, Mr. Soya Mori.
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Fiji Times
THE Fiji National Council for Disabled Persons launched a new activity yesterday which gave its members the opportunity to experience having a paid job.
The new activity was a small car wash centre at Qarase House on Brown Street.
"One of the new directions is to take up such activities for the centre," said executive director Dr Sitiveni Yanuyanutawa.
"This car wash activity will create in these students skills apart from carpentry and sewing (skills which they learn here).
"This is also a popular area because the road is busy almost all the time. The proceeds from this scheme will go to the council."
Dr Yanuyanutawa said there were about 90 students at Qarase House from 13 to 30 years of age.
"It is the place for young men and women who are physically challenged," he said.
"Most of them are drop-outs from mainstream schools as they are visually impaired or have abnormal physical development."
Kavinesh Maharaj, 27, helped his colleague Vinal Patel, 13, to wash their first car.
"The students are running with excitement to get started with business," Dr Yanuyanutawa said.
The council also plans to create a mini-market where the students work in carpentry, joinery, screen painting, book binding, and sewing can be put on display and sold.
photo caption: Vinal Patel (right) and freinds Allen McCaigh (left) and Kavinesh Maharaj washing the first car at the Fiji National Council of Disabled Persons new car wash facility on Brown St in Suva.
Picture: ELIKI NUKUTABU
http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=139474
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